Learn My Purpose

Welcome! Explore this area to access resources including Pastor Rick Warren’s Daily Hope free email devotional, 42 audio messages for you to learn your purpose, and leadership courses that will take you deeper into a purpose driven life.

Does fear stop you from sharing the Good News of Christ? Listen as Pastor Rick breaks down the benefits of fulfilling your life mission, and gives us tools for successfully sharing Jesus with our families and friends.

By now you know you were intentionally created and gifted by God to be uniquely you. Join Pastor Rick as he asks, “Will my life be about comfort or will my life be about character? What will be the character of my life?”

“If you insist on saving
your life, you will lose it. Only those who throw away their lives for my sake
and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live.”
(Mark 8:35 LB)

God wired the
universe so that happiness does not come from status, salary, sex, or success.

Happiness
comes from service. God designed you to be happiest when you are giving your
life away. Why? Because he wants you to become like him. It’s all about love!

“If you insist on saving your life,
you will lose it. Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the
sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live” (Mark 8:35 LB).

To have a
happy heart, you have to practice service and generosity every day.

Matthew 20:28
says, “Even the Son of Man came not to be
served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many”
(NLT).

Jesus came to
serve and give. Those are the two things that will bring more happiness in your
life than anything else, and they define what it means to follow Jesus. If
you’re not serving, if you’re not giving, then you’re not following Jesus. It’s
very simple.

God also
wired the universe in such a way that the more you give yourself away, the more
God gives to you and the more blessed and happier you are.

In
Philippians 2:17-18, Paul says, “Your
faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. If I have to
offer my own blood with your sacrifice, I will be happy and full of joy with
all of you. You also should be happy and full of joy with me” (NCV).

Your faith
makes you offer your life as a sacrifice and serve God by serving others.
Sacrifice and serving are two of the keys to lifelong happiness — generously
giving your life away for the sake of the Gospel.

Talk It Over

What
makes you happiest in life?

Talk
about a time when you experienced happiness through service or generosity.

How
much of your time is spent on service? What are ways that you can serve others
today?